“…The majority rule posits that individuals prefer to choose the majority-weakly-superior option (i.e., slightly more favorable on most of its attributes) rather than the minority-strongly-superior option (i.e., considerably more favorable on few of its attributes; A brief formal description of the majority rule is provided in the Appendix; cf., May, 1952 for the pioneering axiomatic characterization of the majority rule). This preference could have stemmed from a deepseated belief that a congruent decision is more effective at receiving accurate information than an individual's effort (e.g., Hastie & Kameda, 2005), or that the majoritarian judgments are, for instance, more democratic and just than the assertive judgments of the minority for satisfying political equality, with most elections of legislative representatives and referendums being decided by this rule (e.g., Nieuwelink, Dekker, Geijsel, & Ten Dam, 2017;Risse, 2004;Saunders, 2008, p. 21).…”